Another national championship event with good results for Speed Car was the classic event that the Spanish Autocross Championship holds every year in August in Arteixo. Pol Durán, at the wheel of a Wonder, won the Car Cross category, which is always very competitive, and both Quim González, with another Wonder in the Car Cross series, and Eduard Bañeres, with a TTR, finished second in their categories in the fifth round of the 2024 season..
In his second participation this year in the CEAX GoldSpeed, Eduard Bañeres repeated with his Speed Car TTR the second place he had achieved in Esplús. The Catalan driver was the fastest in qualifying heat A, won all three heats and started the final from pole position. A bumpy first lap of the decisive race and a puncture prevented Bañeres from fighting for the victory, but he managed to stay in second position until the finish line..
Pol Durán returned to the forefront of the Car Cross category in Arteixo, achieving his third victory of the season. The Speed Car Wonder driver had won the first two races of the year but since his victory in Esplús he had been unlucky. This time, despite the fact that the final had to be restarted twice after being interrupted at the first attempt by a red flag, Durán, who started from pole position after winning his three qualifying rounds, managed to hold on to first position to end up achieving a new victory that boosts his chances in the Spanish Championship..
Two other drivers reached the final of the top fifteen with their Speed Car Wonder. They were the Galician Sergio Suárez, who qualified ninth after starting from eleventh on the grid, and the Catalan Josep Aranda, thirteenth after losing a couple of positions due to a drive through penalty. Of the total of forty-five competitors who started the competition in Arteixo, eight of them started with models made by Industrias Lahoz, making Speed Car, once again, the most represented brand in a national championship event.
Quim González is still in the fight for the Car Cross Series title after finishing second in Arteixo. The young Speed Car Wonder driver was once again among the best all weekend. After setting the third fastest time in his heat, Quim was second in both heats on Saturday and first on Sunday, results that placed him in the middle of the first line of the starting grid for the final, from where he immediately occupied the second position that he kept until the end of the race..
The other driver who is competing regularly this season in the 'Car Cross Series' category with a Speed Car Wonder, Juan García Pandiella, also stood out in Arteixo. The Asturian driver took pole position after winning both qualifying heats on Saturday and although in the final he couldn't keep the first place, he was in the fight for the top places and finished one step away from the podium..
As in Esplus, the second round of the season, Joan Aranda and Oriol Cabeza were the drivers who participated with Speed Car models in the 'Junior' category of the Arteixo event. Aranda drove his Wonder to eleventh position after having been seventh in his timed series and tenth in the qualifying rounds, while Cabeza finished fourteenth with his Xtrem both in the total of the qualifying rounds and in the final..
-> CarCross Junior results (pdf file)
Pictures: CEAX RFEdA press service
